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W D Kelley Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $281k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| TEMPLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $142,600 |
| BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN | $120,997 |
| CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $105,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL TX | $100,000 |
| ROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FDN | $91,964 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE GEORGETOWN AREA | $90,000 |
| CASA OF WM COUNTY | $87,097 |
| GEORGETOWN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM | $75,000 |
| TAYLOR EDUC ENRICHMENT FDN | $63,000 |
| GEORGETOWN ISD EDUCATION FDN | $61,569 |
| AUSTIN COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| LEANDER EDUC EXCELLENCE FDN | $53,200 |
| HUTTO EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LADDERS FOR LEADERS | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $472k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
40 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BIBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $353k · revenue +217%
- RRROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $211k · revenue +51%
- SUSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2021 · $121k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- JTJAILS TO JOBSone grant, 2023 · $50k
- CTCENTRAL TX PHILHARMONIC INCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
The texas association for the gifted and talented connects and empowers educators and parents to meet the unique needs of gifted & talented individuals through awareness, advocacy and action.
Our School provides an intellectually challenging education for girls in a supportive and creative environment, and inspires girls to achieve personal excellence and to go on to lead distinguished and fulfilling lives.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
Cultural development and charity work for the state of telangana
The mission of the texas higher education foundation is to increase participation and success in higher education for all texans. the foundation is a support organization for the texas higher education coordinating board. it exists to…
The primary goal of Great Hearts America-Texas is to graduate thoughtful leaders of character who will contribute to a more philosophical, humane, and just society.
Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…
Opportunity austin is a regional economic development initiative aimed at fostering job-creating investment across the austin and central texas region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heroes Night Out Inc and the most unlike its peers is Keep Temple Beautiful. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 101 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Simple Sparrow ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GEORGETOWN AREA ↗
- Who funds CASA of Williamson County Texas ↗
- Who funds LADDERS FOR LEADERS ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds HUTTO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP TEMPLE BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGETOWN PALACE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds A GIFT OF TIME - ADULT DAY CARE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · Georgetown Area Community Foundation · Central Texas Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Topfer Family Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · United Way of Williamson County · Shell USA Company Foundation · Bud & Norma Johnson Family Foundati · Nolan Ryan Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization W D Kelley Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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